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The NASCAR Cup Series Drivers' Championship is awarded by the chairman of NASCAR to the most successful NASCAR Cup Series racing car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on race results. The Drivers' Championship was first awarded in 1949 to Red Byron. [1] The first driver to win multiple Championships was Herb Thomas in ...
NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race: United Rentals 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race: NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship Race: Pocono Raceway: Mattco Inc. 2.500-mile (4.023 km) Turn 1: 14° Turn 2: 8° Turn 3: 6° Straights: 0° Paved Triangular Oval: Long Pond, Pennsylvania: 76,812 The Great American Getaway 400 Presented by ...
The NASCAR championship season consists of a series of races, held usually on oval tracks, and in a few cases, road courses. [4] Each season throughout NASCAR history has consisted of between 8 and 62 races. [5] The results of each race are combined to determine two championships in each of the top series, one for drivers and one for manufacturers.
Only points-paying championship races count towards the total. Richard Petty holds the record for the most NASCAR Cup Series wins in history with 200. David Pearson is second with 105 victories, and Jeff Gordon is third with 93 wins. [5] Petty also holds the record for the longest time between his first win and his last.
List of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champions; List of NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour champions; List of NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national champions; List of NASCAR Mexico Series champions; List of NASCAR Mexico T4 Series champions; List of NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race champions; List of Busch All-Star Tour champions; List of ...
During the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Park would grab his first win at his home track of Watkins Glen, winning the 2000 Global Crossing @ The Glen and finish 11th in the point standings. Park's 2001 season began with a crash in lap 173 of the Daytona 500 , in which he was one of eighteen cars involved.
Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park is the track that had hosted the most ever races in the modern era of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour with 155 races from 1985 to 2024. The speedway also had hosted 3 NASCAR Grand National Series races, one in 1951 and two between 1969 and 1970.
Since its inaugural season in 1949, there have been 77 NASCAR Cup Series seasons The Cup series is the premier stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR. Below is a list of seasons by decade. Below is a list of seasons by decade.